My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.